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No, SS benefits are not for sale, unlike other kinds of disability policies. The way a parent gets coverage that would provider coverage for a disabled adult child, is through that parent's work record, earnings upon which he paid SS taxes. Once he is sufficiently insured for SS himself, he then has coverage for any child that becomes disabled before age 22. This is called Disabled Adult Child (DAC) benefits. This means that IF the child can prove that he became disabled as defined by the SSA, before he was 22, then whenever his parent becomes eligible for his own SS benefits (retired, disabled) or is deceased, that disabled adult child can file for a DAC benefit based on his parent's work record. He may choose to do that IF that DAC benefit is bigger than any other Social Security benefit he may be receiving. Generally, he has be remain unmarried, to get this dependent benefit. Prior to being eligible for a DAC benefits (such as if no parent is yet on SS him/herself), that disabled adult child would instead be on SSI (Supplemental Security Income) if he did not have social security himself. Then he switches to DAC as soon as he is eligible to apply.

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